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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by "Roy T. Fielding" <fi...@kiwi.ics.uci.edu> on 1997/07/15 17:44:59 UTC

Re: cvs commit: apache/src CHANGES http_protocol.c

>No! finalize_request_protocol() should *never* be called by a module. It
>should only be called from http_request.c and http_protocol.c.

Fixed.

>And that's not its sole purpose. It's there to do anything the HTTP spec
>requires needs to be done after the entity of the response has been
>sent. If we had any footer headers to send, for example, we'd send them
>there.

That is what I wrote.  The only thing that HTTP allows us to send at
that point is the terminating information for a transfer encoding,
which is exactly what a footer is with chunked.

....Roy